CrackedLinuxISO

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CrackedLinuxISO , (edited )

I have one of those Japanese gardening trowels. To be fair, it does have:

  • A pointy end
  • Beveled, sharp looking edges
  • Serrations
  • A knife handle
  • A knife-like sheath

I really don't blame anyone for thinking it looks like a knife, but I'm not going to defend cops, nosy community watch groups, or UK knife laws here.

The setup leasing to the gardener being arrested is a real shitty situation, but fuck the cops for not giving the guy any proper legal representation.

Edit: Dunno what kind of trowel he was actually carrying, but this is mine
https://larnerseeds.com/products/japanese-hori-hori

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Yes, and I wouldn't be surprised to hear of someone in the UK getting arrested for owning one.

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This could be useful: Suppose people are gambling on outcomes I do/don't like. Maybe "Chances that we all die in nuclear war". If my superpower prediction is that a nuclear war will happen, I should place a bet to change the outcome from "guaranteed death" to "maybe death".

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Rolling blunts. You just have to keep your hands dry

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What do you mean by handling the keyfile?

You can generate your ssh keys outside of docker and make them available in the container through a mounted directory. You will need to manually copy the public key to your remote host authorized_keys file anyway.

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I always thought that wish-granting is instant, even if the effects of that wish are delayed.

So if I wish for something to happen in 5 days, it's granted in the moment and guaranteed to happen. That raises a question though: Can I wish to cancel a wish I have already made, but whose effect has not yet taken hold? On its face, this should be possible, but if we take it as a given that all valid wishes are always granted at the moment of utterance, then it might be physically/psychologically impossible for me or anyone else to revoke the wish before its IRL effect is complete.

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The Lawrence of Arabia toilet challenge is tough, but rewarding. Intermission is welcome because you can get off the toilet and watch a couple of tiktok shorts.

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    Did something change in the link? I can't find any reference to mood-aware searches.

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    I tried Kagi out and enabled the setting to minimize SEO spammy/AI sloppy search results.

    It's not 100% perfect, but it's noticeably better than my last few years of DDG usage. When I search for "How to X" or "Best X buyer's guide", I actually get real results. And not just equivalent to adding "site:reddit" to my search, I mean real hobbyist or professional forums where people have been discussing this shit for years. It's really refreshing.

    How bad is my partitioning?

    I just got a new laptop and installed Linux on it. I mainly run OpenSUSE. ...

    A partitioning layout in YaST2 that looks thoroughly disorganized. Installed are 4 Windows 11 partitions, Mint EFI, Mint boot, Mint root encrypted, OpenSUSE EFI, swap, OpenSUSE boot, OpenSUSE root encrypted, and a data partition.
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    The pain of keeping it around will outweigh the pain of needing it and not having it.

    Quick boot into windows to help a friend test something on your machine?

    • Twenty-five bajillion updates since you never logged in
    • Windows "helpfully" cleaning up your Linux bootloader
    • Any shared NTFS partition between windows and Linux is almost guaranteed to be left in a "dirty" state when windows shuts down, meaning you have to run ntfsfix before Linux will mount it again

    And suddenly, that's where you'll be spending the whole afternoon. I agree with the others who say a VM is probably good enough.

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    You can already stick a beer bottle in the sand. If you're determined enough, also your ass (Wikipedia, SFW).

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    I've got friends who are vibing without a job. The vibes are... not so good.

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    Shouldn't he be folding little origami animals or something?
    https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/e4d67725-11c3-4ae9-b8c6-db3e5d4360d4.webp

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    My local martial arts club had a rightwing woman join around spring 2021. Almost immediately she brought kind of chuddy energy to our meetings which really sucked. However, she wasn't outright violating any of our rules about hate speech or accepting other people.

    At first we tried to ignore her, but she didn't take the hint and kept showing up even when most members stopped speaking to her in complete sentences. Then we passed a rule saying that you couldn't participate in club events without being vaccinated. She threw a fit and called us all pharma sheep before quitting in a huff, and we got to enjoy our hobby again.

    If this happens again, I'm personally going to skip straight to making their membership untenable.

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    Depends on the search engine you use. I started giving Kagi a try and it has options to increase visibility of fediverse content in your searches.

    I'd guess it's a mix of fediverse being a poor fit for ad-oriented SEO and relatively low adoption.

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    Everyone out here acting like they don't use 9001

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    I like the mighty, but not a fan of how the screen dims over time. At least, that's the case for the one my husband bought (in 2018-19 I think).

    Heads up: The batteries will eventually die on you, but if you have basic soldering skills and some patience, they're not too hard to replace.

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    Babylon 5 did it pretty well. One complete story, told across 5 seasons of 22 episodes each. Some of the episodes which I thought were filler on first watch turned out to involve critical plot elements in later seasons. I want to say seasons 2-4 were really tightly focused. Season 5 kinda slowed down, mostly because season 4 was written to be a finale in case they got canceled.

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    The Republic in ep 1 is about to get in a war with the Trade Federation over taxes. If a group of space traders think they can win a fight against the galactic government, then maybe the economy is poor and Republic credits aren't trusted.

    Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter - The most historically inaccurate vampire movie?

    I was originally going to ask: Which vampire movie is more historically inaccurate, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter or... And then I realized I couldn't think of any other vampire movie that actually tries to pretend it's taking place in the "real world" like Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. I mean, any inclusion of vampires ...

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    I recently watched Shadow of the Vampire, which asked the question "What if Max Shreck was a real vampire during the filming of Nosferatu (1922)?"

    An interesting premise, but it really bothered me that Shadow of the Vampire pretended that all of Shreck's scenes were filmed at night. When you watch Nosferatu's "nighttime" scenes with Count Orlock, you can clearly see him casting a daylight shadow. Afterwards, they tinted the scenes blue to simulate moonlight.

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    Not sure what your living situation is, but if you have the space for a grill, you can get an outdoor wok stand + propane burner for not a lot of money.

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    You know it's fake because the faces are showing

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    You should report this to somewhere like 404 media

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    Popcorn + spoon is the way. Clean hands plus high throughput.

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    It’s just random people coming with alcohol and having fun. Doesn’t this exist in America?

    I've seen it in a few places.

    Eg: Yesterday I was boating on a river and passed a dock packed full of young people doing all that stuff.

    Keep in mind that the drinking age is different between Germany and USA. Teenagers will get in trouble for public drinking, so they tend to do it in secret.

    CrackedLinuxISO ,

    SRE:

    • Receives a slack message that lighbulb is broken
    • Realizes that they never got an alert when the light went out
    • Fixes their monitoring thresholds
    • Routes all broken lightbulb alerts to a slack channel nobody reads
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    If you have some really flavorful dried mushrooms, save the water you used for rehydration. Makes a great soup stock.

    Rehydrated or fresh, I think most people undercook their mushrooms. Even bland supermarlet cremini/portobello is greatly improved by pan frying until it gets slightly crispy and seared.

    Wildlife experts remove a plastic lid that was stuck on a Michigan bear’s neck for two years ( apnews.com )

    “It’s pretty incredible that the bear survived and was able to feed itself,” state bear specialist Cody Norton said Wednesday. “The neck was scarred and missing hair, but the bear was in much better condition than we expected it to be.” ...

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    Apparently in this context bear baiting means hunting a bear by leaving bait, not tying a bear up and betting on how many attack dogs it can kill before dying.

    Interested in running a Paranoia one-shot but concerned about the line between in-game and out-of-game consequences

    I'm interested in starting a game of Paranoia for some friends. This would be the latest edition. I've never run this game before, and I see plenty of online discourse about how to stoke intrigue and backstabbing betteen PCs. What has confused me when reading about the game (Core book, but also online comments) is how the GM ...

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    Yeah, but Paris also got to fuck the delta flyer

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    I do that for data I want to persist, but which I don't care about backing up (eg caches)

    CrackedLinuxISO ,

    Is this something you're self hosting for fun, or is it some kind of business?

    If you're running web services for a business, you should look into existing load test tooling/infrastructure. Some of it can be fully managed, or other solutions might have a degree of setup involved (eg spinning up worker nodes in AWS or whatever). The hard part is designing your load test to match IRL traffic patterns, but once you have that down you can confidently answer questions about service scalability.

    A load test is not a DDoS test. Load tests tell you how much legitimate traffic your services can take. DDoS consists of illegitimate traffic which may not correspond to what your web services expect.

    Usually you don't test your systems for something like a DDoS. You would instead set up DDoS protection through a CDN (content delivery network) to shield yourself and let someone else handle the logistics of blocking unwanted load. It's a really hard problem to solve.

    Depending on what you want to learn, running your own DDoS is unlikely to be very instructive. Most "DDoS as a service" networks are not going to tell their customers how anything works, they just take your bitcoin and send some traffic where you tell them.

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    I can outsource things like ddos protection to my cdn provider, but that would still be just kinda hoping I didn’t have any attackable surface I didn’t think of prelaunch.

    In that case, I wonder if your money would be better spent on contracting a security review. If you're worried about unknown attack surface, I'm not sure that funding organized crime to rent a botnet would help. Botnet operators rely on you to tell them what to attack, so you're unlikely to discover anything new here. Better to hire a professional and get a fresh opinion.

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    This paragraph suggests that making a profit was intended to be easy.

    As seen in Figure 3, Claude 3.5 Sonnet outperformed the human baseline in mean performance,
    but its variance was very high. We only have a single sample for the human baseline and therefore
    cannot compare variances. However, there are qualitative reasons to expect that human variance
    would be much lower. All models had runs where they went bankrupt. When questioned, the human
    stated that they estimated this would be very unlikely to happen to them, regardless of the number
    of samples.

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    Maybe they once read the thing and got an answer, but now they forget what the specific answer was.

    This happens to me often with technical documentation or history books.

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    Without any context of when these substitutions are acceptable, this graphic doesn't seem very useful. Fucking agar vs applesauce is not 1:1

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    This makes me realize that I want desk toy which is metallic, heavy and has a satisfying mechanical action, but which does not resemble a firearm in appearance or function. Basically all the tactile experience of playing with a revolver, but none of the legal or emotional baggage.

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    I love how legendary producer/musician Brian Eno is reduced to "the Win 95 chime guy"

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    Small blessings. Seeing a WSL user means that some dev out there didn't have to implement Windows support.

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    One downside of the method is that each molecular message can only be read once, since decoding the polymers involves degrading them.

    New DRM just dropped. Imagine pouring rented movies into your TV like laundry detergent.

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    I realize that this is a humor post, and not necessarily the right place to provide advice, but never underestimate the power of adding a Q&A meeting to someone else's calendar. Someone doesn't want to make time to explain mystery tool? Well you just made it for them. Usually I try and be polite by asking before I arrange something.

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    WRONG!

    • The proper amount of coffee is actually "Up to the number 3 on my grinder's fill chamber"
    • The proper waiting time is 6 minutes
    • The proper vantage point for casting judgement is behind a keyboard

    I'll see you at the world barista championship

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    Sounds like the perfect reason to have different words. Who would want to type that out every time? I'm sure someone could spend several paragraphs describing the difference between fur and hair, or stucco vs plaster.

    If you don't care about the difference between two words, then those words probably weren't invented for you. Someone else who works with that nuance on a daily basis probably really likes that they can sum things up briefly.

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    A post 1.0 goal is to be a general engine replacement for many Bethesda titles. OpenMW would be a platform for other projects to build OpenOblivion, OpenNewVegas, etc on.

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    OpenMW already uses the bullet physics engine. However, it's not really exposed to the existing Lua API right now, hence Max Yari implementing physics separately in Lua.

    Test footage of Oblivion assets loaded in OpenMW shows that physics like ragdolls or interactive objects is already possible.

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    I feel like the plot undercut the otherwise cool metaphor that the gorge represented.

    East and West, separated by nothing but their deepest fears. Two killers searching for human connection but unable to reach the nearest person. How fucking cool is that? You can do so much!

    Then you find out that there isn't really any East/West divide, they're both working for the same bad guys. Traversal of the gorge plays like a joke instead of being a serious moment of character development. Then the ending is a bunch of run-shoot-explode.

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    Probably more war:

    1. Depending on the country who developed it, the risk of nuclear war could go up.

    If I don't have to worry about nuclear retaliation, maybe I'm very confident in engaging in war. After all, my nukes will still work, and everyone else's won't.

    1. If the technology is shared equally to all countries at the same time, the risk of conventional war could go up.

    Imagine the nuclear armed countries who are enemies of another nation with a bigger military. North Korea vs USA, Pakistan vs India. In these cases, nuclear weapons are a deterrence against the stronger opponent. Without this, the country with a stronger conventional force may be more likely to they think they'll win a war unscathed.